The Cardinals stingy defense stymied the CE-Hawks for 32 minutes and St. Mary picked up its fourth victory of the season with a 55-34 thumping of Colman-Egan Thursday night in Dell Rapids.

From the first whistle, the Cardinals’ full court press frustrated the CE-Hawks, who scored just 15 first-half points to St. Mary’s 30.

In the second half, the red birds didn’t deviate from the game plan and maintained its lead to hold on for the win.
“Our energy and conversion was big in this game,” said Pete Schmidt, St. Mary head coach.

St. Mary forced 41 turnovers.

Cardinal guard Jared Scholten led all scorers with 16 points. Ben Bunkers added 10 points for St. Mary, and Matt Farmer had nine points. Nate Klein chipped in with five points for the Cardinals.

The 4-12 Cardinals next action is Thursday in Dell Rapids when they host Oldham-Ramona/Rutland.